THE MORXIXG OREGOMAN", THURSDAY vMARCII 4, 1920
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army of 316,700 officers and men that a Swiss mineral- water bottler
proposed by the house committee -uses Austrian notes for labels because
would need only to be temporarily j they are cheaper than any he could
expanded to- care for the national
guard of a maximum strength of
348,000 men and for young men dur
ing their annual periods of training.
Under the latter plan the work of
the department could be done by far
fewer men, with occasional tempo
rary increase, than with a large reg
ular army and no civilian training.
HOW TO REDITCE PRICES.
The address of A. L. Mills to the
Rotary club contained advice which
should be followed by everyone. . It
Is to every man's and ""woman's in
terest to follow that advice, for thus
each one can help to reduce the cost
of living, against which all protest.
It is to buy only what is actually
necessary. If we buy less and pro
duce more, the cost of living must
automatically fall.
High cost of living fifteen months
after war ceased is in large part the
result of habits induced by the war.
Because wages and profits were high,
more was spent and high prices were
paid, though the two reasons contra
dict each other. People spent more
because they had more money, yet
they had no more spending power,
because the purchasing power of
their money was less in proportion.
prices being higner. than before the
war. Manufacturers and merchants
have played on this popular error
by raising prices further. The remedy
is in our hands. It is to stop buying
anything with which we can dispense
until prices come down. During the
war we were urged to . practice
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allies and to save money for Liberty
bonds. Now is the time to practice
economy in order to help ourselves
and to defeat the present enemy
high cost of living.
That course would help the work
ing of other means for adjustment
of the world's disordered affairs. By
restricting the volume of business it
would aid deflation of the currency,
which would increaA; the purchasing
power of the dollar. By increasing
the aggregate savings from the na
tional income it would increase the
amount of capital available for
. leconstruotion of Kurope. Not till
Europe is again at work with a full
stomach and at peace will the pros
perity of the United States rest on a
secure foundation. Hence by economy
we help the country as by economy
we helped it during the war.
This is one of many things which
cau be done to repair the damage
which war did to civilization, and it
is one in which everybody can take
a hand on his own initiative without
action by government or-any organi
zation. Another is early ratification
of the peace treaty with reservations.
A third is the conference of financial
and commercial leaders of the great
powers and of neutral nations to
devise a plan of readjustment" for
and among all nations, to which Mr.
Mills referred.
No matter how reluctant we may
be to mix in the intrigues and wars
of Europe, we are already entangled
in its industrial and financial troubles.
We have lent the allies 10, 000,000.
000 and may have to remit several
years' interest and part of the prin
cipal in order to save some countries
from bankruptcy. In order that
several countries of central Europe
may work, they must be fed for a
few months, and America must sell
them the food on credit. Then they
must be supplied with many things
with which and upon which to work,
again on credit, most of which
America must furnish. In this work
we cannot discriminate between
friend and foe any more than we
could in an epidemic. Economic
AMERICANIZED SEATTLE.
The campaign for the Americani
zation of Seattle is making headway.
Major Caldwell was elected mayor
on Tuesday by a majority of more
than 16,000 votes, and the candidates
associated with the Utopian Duncan
Were for the most part also beaten.
But 34,000 men and women voted
for Duncan. It Is a large number,
but its significance is not so disquiet
ing as it would be if the fifty-odd
thousand who 'turned out and cast
their ballots for Caldwell had stayed
at home and let the minority rule.
We have no notion that all the
34,000 had any wish or purpose to
sovietize Seattle. Many of them were
misled into the belief somehow that
the era of the Golden Rule would be
inaugurated through Duncan. But,
if Duncan, had won, the country
would have been ringing today with
shouts from the reds and the half
reds that the strike of a year ago
was vindicated, and its suppression
Vy Ole Hanson and the forces with
him consequently repudiated, and
that control of government had been
turned over to the reformers by the
act of the people themselves. Seattle
would have embarked on new
schemes of experimentation and
revolution.
Seattle has gone somewhat too fast
in the past. Evidently it intends to
slow up. It is time.
have printed, and Russian peasants
refuse to accept bolshevist rubles in
payment for wheat. . They take old
clothes, .old shoes, any old thing ex
cept money. ;
Of course Mr. Harvey may take
refuge in the retort that all the
money in Europe is backed by gold
reserves, that there is hot enough
gold in existence, and that if Europe
had silver coinage at the sacred ratio
of 16 to 1, everything would be ,all
right. But the world's output of
silver is - even farther below the de
mand than is that of gold, so that
bi-metalism would do little to mend
matters, and might make them worse.
All of this indicates that no really
new ideas have entered Mr. Harvey's
head since 1896, and that he would
better stay in the Ozark mountains
and keep quiet.
PROPAGANDA.
A correspondent of the Xew Tork
Globe, by nameMary C. Trask, sends
to that paper the "true story of the
eleven men out in the northwest on
trial for their lives." We may not.
during the progress of the trial, run
the risk of prejudicing the public
mind, or by any chance the court,
by any fit correction or exposition
of the extraordinary tale told by
Mary Trask. She bases her version
on a speech by a lumberjack from
Oregon, who affirmed that the "I. W.
W. as an organization is a protest
against murder and violence," and
has suffered too much through long
years, in the name o law and order."
to practice or believe in that sort
of thing. "We have been," said
the great, strong, simple-minded,
big-hearted, law-loving lumberjack,
"tarred and feathered, beaten,
maimed and jailed by our employers
and thoir hirelings and here we stand
as unalterably opposed to violence as
we have been through all the years."
As an illustration he told how
eleven brave men brave, but unal
terably opposed to violence were
attacked in the I. W. W. hall at
Centralia by a bloodthirsty mob of
soldiers. Ttte members of the mob
were armed, it appears, with their
service uniforms and their bare
hands, and in their helplessness,
hopelessness and innocence the noble.
I. W. W. were forced to prepare for
attack and to shoot dead with rifle?
the lawless and destroying marauders.
That is the way conscious virtue,
unalterably opposed to violence, pre
vented violence by an unarmed
but terrible mob. It was all very
touching.
But our chief interest is in the
following paragraph from the o'er
true report of the sympathetic lady:
I ask, Is not the greatest offense aeainst
law ard order in this terrible tragedy the
constant stream of lies sent put from Cen
tralia and Montesano In the effort to ac
complish the legal murder of these eleven
men (some of whom are ex-service men)
who had used the only weapon for self
defense that this country has ever placed
In their hands?
Awful, If true. One Illustration bf
the constant stream of false propa
ganda is the statement that any of
the ten men now on trial are, or
have been, American soldiers. Not
one of them donned the uniform of
his country whether it was America
or Germany in the recent war.
But the "greatest offense against
law and order iiv this terrible busi
ness" is the deliberate conspiracy,
of which the Globe correspondent is
a part, to show that the trial at
Montesano is a base project of
the citizens of a state to use the
machinery of the country to achieve
the legal murder of innocent men.
WHOSE ENDS DO THEY SERVE?
The senate adopts several of the
Lodge., reservations to the Versailles
treaty by majorities of more than
two to one. It is natural to expect
that the same senators who vote, for
the reservations will . also vote for
ratification with them attached, and
that therefore ratification is assured.
Yet we are told that a final deadlock
is expected. How can this be?
It is because the irreconcilables.
who are determined to kill the treaty,
vote for the reservations with the
intention afterward to vote against
ratification. By joining the last-ditch"
opponents of reservation, who hold
the opposite extreme of opinion from
their own, they would diminish the
majority below two-thirds and thus
prevent ratification and kill the
treaty. Such is their ultimate purpose.
Whose ends would be served? Not
those of the American people, who
fought not only to defeat Germany
but to establish peace. Not those
of the allies, who want to put Ger
many under bond to keep the peace.
Only those of Germany, which signed
and ratified the treaty with assertions
that its terms could not-De executed,
which immediately began to break
it and which has since labored to
promote division among the allies
and to secure revision of the terms.
Whatever may be the purpose of
the death battalion's course, its.
effect would be to promote the ends
of Germany.
If the treaty should now be tie
feated, action on it would be deferred
until after the election, and the pres
ent disorganized state of Europe
would be continued, Germany would
gain time to continue intrigue for
revision, to avoid reparation pay
ments and disarmament, to organize
a new army, to sow dissension among
neighboring states and to lay wires
for a new war. Already it has
enlisted the aid of business interests
In Britain, and has its lines laid in
other countries.
If ratification should be defeated
by the combined votes -of the death
battalion and the immovable demo
crats, they will share a heavy respon
sibility with President Wilson. The
irreconcilable faction includes about
one-fourth of the republican senators
and four democrats. Three-fourths
of the republicans stand solidly with
Senator Lodge for ratification with
reservations, while more than half
the democrats stand by the Wilson
policy. With that showing the main
body of democrats and the repub
lican irreconcilables cannot evade
responsibility to the people.
istence of such great industrial units
as the steel corporation Without its
aid and that of its largest competi
tors the gqvernment could not as
easily have satisfied the sudden great
demand for steel in every shape, and
it could not- as readily have under
taken construction of the great gun
and projectile plant at Neville island
which was halted by the armistice.
Similar service was rendered by other
industrial combinations; enabling the
government promptly to mobilize in
dustry. - .
The decision ends doubt that this
country is to be a field for the opera
tions of large units in every line of
industry. That is "so obviously the
tendency of the times that, we could
resist it only at the cost of severe
friction between the law and busi
ness. Thus is vindicated tne judg
ment of Theodore Roosevelt when
he insisted that safety from oppres
sive monopoly lay in regulation, not
dissolution, of these large units. That
policy is more than ever in accord
with our true interest when our pros
perity must be derived chiefly from
foreign trade, where our manufac
turers must compete with huge com
binations of other nations encouraged
by their governments. This pros
pect enhances the importance of the
federal trade commission and de
mands that It be' composed of men
free from prejudice or cranky theory, j
men who will not persecute, but will
regulate business and guide it in
courses where it will serve the
people.
Stars and Starmakers.
By Leone Cass Baer.
Those who think of the "old world"
as a place already built, and as fixed
as the ruins that people visit it to see,
will be surprised by the news given
out by the United States trade com
missioner at Rome that the munici
pal Authorities of that city have
made provision for the immediate
erection of two entirely new suburbs
outside the present city limits, for
which a type of small cottage has
been selected that resembles the
American design more than the Ital
ian. It is admitted tnat wane Europe
may excel us in art, we are ahead
in matters of convenience, particu
larly in housing, and old-world archi
tects are beginning to think that the
happiness of the people can be pro
moted by attention to creature com
forts. But the Italian designers, as
was to have been expected, have not
ignored the esthetic, and no house
will ,be without Its garden, which
will combine beauty with utility in
the most economical way possible.
The way in which war-worn Italy
is meeting its housing problem is an
inspiration to nations more fortunate
than it is.
Friends of Will Lloyd, who has been
a Baker actor at various times in va
rious eeasoris, will learn with pleasure
that he Is on Broadway in a play
called "The Unseen Hand," which was
tried out successfully at Atlantic City
a few weeks ago. Crane Wilbur wrote
the piece and A. H. Woods is produc
ing. Its plot is an ouija board and
its theme Is spiritualism. In the re
views given the performance especial
praise is given Mr. Lloyd's, portrayal
of an ex-crook, a comedy role.
Willis' F. Goodhue is in Portland
ahead of the Galloway English Opera
company, which comes to the Helllg
week .after next. He is accompanied
by Mrs. Goodhue and during their
stay here they are guests at the Port
land. Although Lucille Cavanaugh of the
"Ziegfeld Follies" fame, retired and
-left the stage six months ago, upon
her. marriage to Walter Leimbert, and
is now living in Piedmont; Cal., the
Cavanauhs will continue to be rep
resented in the fields of art'.
A younger sisterfJlarie Cavanaugh,
has Joined the crew of "The Night
Boat" at the Liberty theater in New
York.
Those Who Come and Go.
It seems to be established that if
aviation is to be developed in the
United States reliance will have to
be placed on private concerns to do
it. There is reason for believing,
however, that much can be accom
plished in this way. Great Britain
already has a large number of com
mercial concerns in the aviation
field, a conspicuous feature of whose
operations has been their freedom
from accidents. More than 21,000
passengers were carried in Eifgland
last season on other than merely
local excursions and more than 4000
flights were made, covering 303,000
miles, or an average of about seventy-five
miles per flight. Air trips
between London and Paris and be
tween "London and Brussels are now
made as routine, and the number of
machines - "for hire" is increasing
rapidly. The ' British government,
however, is co-operating in the con
struction of landing fields, which it
appears will be left in this country
either to private initiative or to mu
nicipal enterprise. -
One by one the thrills of city life
are leaving.: " Who now wants to
stand on the curb and watch a horse
less fire engine go by? Even the
-fillerman on a -truck is now a mere
machinist where once he was an
artist.
The gentle practice of dragging
profiteers through the streets of
Bulgarian tles indicates that the
Bulgars have learned something pro
gressive from the war, after all. Its
motto seems to be, "Treat 'em rough!"
What have innocent men to fear
breakdown is a disease which alike lanywhere in the courts of America ?
afflicts our friends France, Italy
and Toland and our former ene
mies Germany and the fragments
of the quondam Hapsburg monarchy.
We must check the disease wherever
it shows itself in order that it may
not infect us.
This will furnish useful and profit
able employment for the money
which Jones will save by not buying
that new suit, which Mrs. Jones will
save by not buying that new hat and
which they will both save by having
Johnny's shoes repaired instead of
giving them to the garbage man and
buying him a new pair. When slack
times come, the Joneses will not miss
the things they have gone without,
and the income on the money will
come very handy.
TTTETVR ITERS FOR A BIG ARMY.
Although the war department was
driven by congress to sell to con
sumers the vast surplus of food and
clothing for the army which re
mained from the war, it stfll clings
tenaciously to its typewriters. It
bought 200,000 of them and has sold
only 85,000. The other 165,000 are
stored in warehouses all over tha
country, at great expense for ware
house space, care and insurance. A
committee of the house found 2500
of them stored in one building in
Washington. "
The only explanation which Repre
sentative Wood Jf Indiana could find
for the reluctance of the war depart
ment to dispose of these machines is
xnac it stui nopes to muuee congress
to authorize a large standing army
of 675,000 officers and men. and
wants to nave typewriters ready for
them. One would think that type
writers were to-be one of the chief
weapons for the army of the future,
for there would be one for each
three and a half men.
Here is illustrated the fallacy of
those men who oppose universal mil
itary training qn the plea of econo
my. The only alternative. If the
country is to be"well defended, is a
milch larger regular army than
would suffice if all civilians of mil
itary age were trained ready for an
emergency. A large -regular army
A VOICE r'RO.U THE PAST SPEAKS.
Memories of the great free silver
campaign of 1S96 are revived by
receipt of a pamphlet entitled "Com
mon Sense; or, The riot on the Brain
of the Body Politic, by A Hermit
in the Ozark Mountains. Publisher,
Wm. H. Coin Harvey." This effusion
contains evidence that Mr. Harvey is
not only its publisher but also its
author, the hermit in question.
Who that was of voting age in
1896 does not remember the excite
ment that was caused by a - book"
entitled 'Coin." by Mr. Harvey,
which was considered the last word
In favor of free silver? It had a
prodigious sale and was held to prove
the case of the Bryanitcs beyond dis
pute. Since that year Harvey has
been forgotten and was supposed to
be politically dead, but he has risen
from the political graveyard in these
times when many new nostrums are
offered and many old ones are fur
bished tip as cures for all the ills of
the world. .
The Harvey brand of common sense
is much like that of twenty-four
years ago. In his opinion everything
would be all right if everybody who
had money were compelled to lend it
without interest, and that everything
is all wrong because those who have
money are allowed to hoard it when
they should keep it circulating by
lending it without interest, which he
calls usury, to those who need it.
He quotes laws against usury begin
ning with most ancient times, tells
of the surrender of congress to the
money power during the civil war
and thus leads down to the present
debt-ridden Condition of the world.
His only explanation of the failure
of all . laws against interest is the
money power, and he fails to explain
how this power has become supreme.
Nor does he reveal how a man can
be compelled to part with his money
without interest. .
But Mr. Harvey is behind the
times; in the vernacular he is talking
"old stuff." The source of our pres
ent trouble is not that people hoard
money; it is that money has become
a drug on the market and that
Those Omaha grocers who propose
to offer cheaper goods when custom
ers ask for high-priced articles do
not know present-day buyers. , It is
not a question of ethics or economy.
The buyer may go elsewhere.
These governors put up a bold
front for a while, but in the end they
all" back down before the women.
Povernor Hart, too, has called a
special session of the Washington
legislature.
THE NEW VIEW OF GREAT
CORPORATIONS. t
In the judgment of the Unite'd
States supreme court, the United
States Steel corporation, commonly
called the steel trust, is not a trust
within the meaning of the Sherman
law, though it control almost half
of the steel industry, Including
sources of supply of raw .material
and many means of transportation.
The decision marks an epoch in the
relations of the law to great corpora
tions. 'We had, first, under Presi
dents Cleveland and McKinley some
decisions which seemed to render the
law inoperative. -We had under
Roosevelt the Northern Securities
decision, which proved that the law
had "teeth," followed by proceedings
against a number of other corpora
tions. Then we had an intensive
campaign under Taft, which led to
dissolution of the oil and tobacco
trusts, a decree against the harvester
trust and tha suit against the steel
corporation. This campaign was
continued under' Wilson and pro
duced many voluntary submissions
to the demands of the government,
but the war imposed a truce which
has not yet ended.
Throughout all these changes In
the attitude of the government
toward great corporations, there has
come a change in the attitude of such
corporations toward competitors and
the public, and there has come a cor
responding change in the attitude vf
the public toward them. These
changes find expression in the ma
jority decision of the supreme court.
The steel corporation is given a clean
bill of health because it has not used
the power which it'may originally
have possessed to crush competitors
and to practice extortion on con
sumers. On the contrary, competi
tors have arisen and grown strong
around it until it now controls a
smaller proportion of the steel indus
try than it controlled when the suit
was brought. Whatever unlawful
practices formerly marred the record
of the steel corporation have long
been - abandoned. It stands distin
guished from other corporations en
gaged in the ' steel industry by its
size alone, and the court endorses
the- dictum of ex-President. Taft,
already approved by the public, that
mere size does not constitute a crime.
The only danger arising from size
is that it conveys power-to do injury,
and for that reason it has been held
by many that mere possession of this
power by any private institution is
an evil, though it may never be ex
ercised. The court rejects that con
struction of the law and holds that
exercise of this power to public in- The democratic party is" in the
jury must be shwn in order to bring unmaking with Edwards on a "wet"
condemnation. Its conclusion, may platform and Bryan vigorously "dry."
be accepted without apprehension
' "Shortage" of roses looms" has a
familiar sound. Yes, there will be
the usual rose shortage until rose
season next June, when the bushes
will come through in the usual
profusion.
Political meetings this year will
lack the "ginger" of other days.
There are not enough "good stories"
to go around, with audiences of
mixed voters. Good thing, too.
In a New. Tork theatrical publica
tion in a department devoted to print
ing complaints of various sorts is the
following which may interest local
folk. Inasmuch a its writer, an In
dian girl, is an Oregonian. Her letter
says: "For the benefit of a number
of persons who are taking an unkind
and untruthful Interest in my na
tivity, I would like to state, through
your columns, a few facts connected
therewith.
"It seems that there are a number
of acts, who, knowing that I speak
Spanish, refer to me as 'that Mexican
harpite.' Others, knowing that my
father's name was of French extrac
tion, declare that I am French, a few
think that I am pure 'wop' and I, my
self, heard one refer to me as 'that
Kike-Indian. If I were really of all
the nationalities that I am said to be,
I would be more mixed than I am!
"It is quite true that my father was
French-Irish, but it is also true that
my mother, who, stilliving, Is more
Indian than French.
"Until I was about eight years old.
I had not seen more than six all white
children. Those early years were
spent in Oregon, ranging from the
vicinity of Castle Rpck, on the Colum
bia, to the vicinity of Pendleton.
"I do speak Spanish, also Chjnook,
and for the benefit of those who have
a smattering of the latter, I will say
that 'Kla-how-ya' and not 'kla-wah-ya'
means 'how do you do?' 'Kla-war-
na' means clear water, the name of the
Columbia river. So much for my name,
which seems to have given some con
cern. Out west, in my .school days,
one did not advertise one's Indian
blood, for father hardly relished the
appellation of 'squaw-man,' but in
these days and especially in theieast,
one seldom hears that word.
"Just why Indian acts n vaude
ville should carry on a species of tri
bal feud, such as used to exist be
tween the different Indian nationst
is hard to say. Our government is sup
posed to have educated us out of
primitive things.
Perhaps it is only"professlonal jeal
ously after all a disease that is not
confined to Indians!
"KATHLEEN KLA-WAH-NA."
a
Reply to Edna: Cliff Lancaster Is
appearing with the Fred Siegel Stock
company, now touring this coast.
Grace La Rue, Orpheum headliner,
la'said to be the plaintiff in a divorce
action started against Byron D. Chand
ler in Westchester county, New Tork.
Chandler is a non-professional, once
known as "The Millionaire Kid'.'
through his free spending habits.
When Myrtle Tannehill-Hamilton, wife
of Hale Hamilton, named Miss La Rue
as the defendant in an action for
$100,000 damages, alleging alienation
of Hale Hamilton's affections, the
other side lines" of the Hamilton-
"In manufacturing and commercial
lines, business in San Francisco is no
better than in Portland, but San Fran
cisco is exceeding us through its tour
ist crop," says Ira F. Powers, who has
returned from California. "Oregon
people cannot understand what this
tourist business means ana ana wnen
our roads are open so that the tour
ists can come north, we will be
swamped with them. California has
never had such a winter for tourists
tha recent one. ' There are little
hamlets which have been dead for
years; now they are thriving. A hotel
opposite a mission in a small town
had not been whitewashed in a gen
eration. Now an addition rs being
built and a new hotel Is under con
struction a block distant. The pro
prietor told me his father went broke
trying to run the little old hotel, but
he himself is now making big money.
The cars covered with dust and cov
ered with luggage may look unpre
sentable, but the tourists of such a
car are liberal spenders. Oregon will
get its share of this tourist money In
the near future, for the tourist does
not care where he goes, providing the
roads are good and we are building
good roads."
"Two million dollars' worth of bonds
for road purposer. will be voted on
by the people of Lane county on May
21," says E. J. Adams of Eugene,
who left for Jiome yesterday after
spending a few days in Portland. "A
committee consisting of over 80 mem
bers, and representing every section of
the county, has. approvea ot me Dona
measure and the sentiment in favor
of the enterprise is constantly In
creasing. The bonds will give the
county about 400 miles of roads, a
most complete and comprehensive
road system within Lank county. Tne
surfacing will be of macadam, with
gravel for the laterals. The 'roads, as
planned, will be 30 feet wide, save in
the mountains, where they will be 24
feet, lane codnty has a good road
system now, but with these bonds the
county will have a system Becond to
none in Oregon. At first when It was
suggested that a bond Issue be floated
there was considerable opposition, but
this has been eliminated to a large
extent end I hope that Jhe measure
will meet with the approval of the
people at the election." Mr. Adams,
by the way, is a candidate for repre
sentative from Lane county." i
"I'm offering 14.50 a day, with
meals at 40 cents. It would cost a
workman $1.20 a day to- live out of
his $4.50, as I furnish the sleeping
accommodations. Notwithstanding
tlrfs, two employment offices in Port
land have been unable to Engage a
solitary man for me," states C. L.
Grutze, district engineer of the state
highway department, who is in the
city from Tillamook and registered at
the Imperial. "The problem of getting
labor promises to be serious this sum
mer. In Tillamook' the county is pre
paring to do a lot of work and is get
ting its steam shovels In place. The
contractor who will rock the Grand
Ronde section of the road to Tilla
mook is fixing the crusher and ar
ranging for' an early start. There Is
considerable bridge work going on,
one project being on Three Rivers,
and the county is working at Kilchis.
It is possible to drive from Portland
to Tillamook now in six hours, al
though it wouldn't be considered a
pleasure trip, as some of it is rough
going."
Decision of the allied, supreme
council prohibiting Turkey from hav
ing a navy puts the Turks in the
same boat as the Swiss, so to speak.
Quen Wan Pang has resigned as
premier of China. At least nobody
can say of him that it cost him a
pang to quit.
Getting a man for . minister to
Siam seems to "be difficult now.
Surely not all democrats have bad
records.
Fifteen In the Newberry case have
been discharged, but the eighty-five
left ought to keep court going .until
fall. ' . - '
. Somehow, we have a sort of burn
ing desire to know whether Brother
A. Mitchell Palmer also wears spats.
because the law has demonstrated
its power to prevent and punish
harmful exercise of this power and
because in the federal trade commis
sion there exists a public agency
that is ever ready to discipline any
corporations which transgress. Heads
of great corporations realize this
fact and therefore they act circum
spectly. '
War has in fact convinced the ob
serving that there are great, positive
advantages to the nation in the ex-
O. A. C. girls are reported to be
making over their old dresses. Later
in life that Is domestic science.
- That clears the decks' for Prince
Palmer and Heir Apparent McAdoo,
with Hoover still running.
Wood and Lowden will fight for
Illinois (main event), with Hoover
in a preliminary.
Mary does not need the advertising.
La Rue-Chandler affairs came out
Miss La Rue and Mr. Hamilton are co
starring in John Golden's "Oh, My
Dear." Mrs. Hamilton is the daughter
of Frank Tannehill. Within the past
few months, when Mr. Hamilton and
Miss La Rue were on the Pacific
coast, a report of their contemplated
marriage crept into print without
either entering any denial, though
Mrs. Hamilton on the New York end
at the time said she thought it wdild
be peculiar if it could be done. Dur
ing the friendly married life of the
Chandlers, when Bryon D. once men
tioned he thought he would go to
New Haven to see a football game,
Mrs. La Rue-Chandler, It was reported
at that time aoquiesced, and then
engaged a chair In the same car.
to walk into the stateroo.m occupied
by her husband and several others.
That started something internally at
the time, but Chandler was said to
have squared it through inheriting
more money Just about then from an
other New England relative
Rennold Wolf in his theatrical col
umn . in the .New Tork Telegraph
prints the following, which is a fair
sample of the usifhl publicity para
graphs that find their way to a dra
matic department on a newspaper.
Say Wolf:
"A rather confusing statement con
cerning some grievance or other of
Horace Goldin, the magician, which
his representative, Arthur S. Ross,
has typewritten, is left to the more
patient reader to picture .puzzle the
plot of It. Here it is verbatim:
"Just to contradict an impression
and an unaccountable .rumor that,
Horace Goldin, the illusionist and
magician of world-wide fame. Is not
the same and" is not as good as ever,
has accepted an engagement at Fox's
Star theater -at One Huifdred and
Seventh street and Lexington avenue,
March 4, 5, 6 and 7, to prove that
the- man who played "before more
crowned heads than any, other per
former is Just as good as ever and is
Justly entitled to his title of king of.
all magicians and illusionists.
John Cort has arranged to send
"Just-a Minute," the musical comedy
by Harry L. Cort, George E. Stod
dard tund Harold Orlob to the Cort
thiter In Chicago for a long engage
ment. Tom Dingle, lately seen as a dan
cer in "Fiddlers Three," and Mabel
Withee ' will head the cast. Mabel
Withee was here three years ago with
Al Jolson's company.
Fred Tash, councilman of Heppner.
has returned home aftef attending
conferences in Portland with railroad
officials. The Oregon and Washing
ton highway from Heppner to the
Gilliam county line is under contract
for B-radins; and the highway makes a
number of encroachments on the right
of wav of the railroad. J. P. O'Brien
approved of the encroachment and
has telegraphed headquarters of the
railroad corporation announcing that
fact Heppner. which is experiencing
a revival of community interest and
Is booming, is desirous of pushing the
highway to completion as rapidly as
possible. The contract calls for com
pletion next month, but will require
more time.
"I can't get warm up here, although
the people In Portland look comfort
able," confessed George L. Hutchin,
who arrived yesterday from Los An
geles. "I have been living in southern
California so long that my blood Is
probably too thin for Portland tem
perature." Mr. Hutchin was formerly
a well-known resident of Portland
and was identified for several years
with the annual rose festival. He went
to California and became interested
In the motion-picture business. Mr.
Hutchin was the scenario writer for
a picture dealing with the revolution
TO STRIKK NOT INIIKKKJIT BIfiHT
Bat One May Chance Vocation Vt ll sp
oilt Inipnlrins; lnduatry.
PORTLAVD, March S. (To the Edi
tor.) Outside of the so-called "hear
says" there are hearsays -more damn
able. if possible, to community Inter
ests and civil government activities
than the colored minister foresaw, In
his soul-savlna; theology. Chief among
these is selfishness, manifested indi
vidually or oriranii'Hlly; differing only
in degree. If I could wield a facile
pen and portray in truthful verbiage
the misdemeanors, 'wastes, crimes, un
rest and woe following-In the wake
of organized selfishness, inferno
would be discounted. -It snpa the
foundation of civil liberty: It de
moralizes domestic felicity; It IncUen
crimes and misdemennors; It ravages
virtue; it spells poverty and orphan
age, despondency and self-destruction.
It assumes many forms and floats In
many channels; it foments hellbroth
In dens of Infamy; it seeks power by
enforced legislation and it concocts
riots and revolutions. But enough of
generalizations.
'To be specific: True Americanism,
the purest and best In the world's
history since the passing of the patri
archlal rule to governmental func
tions, is primarily founded upon the
fundamental declaration. "Freedom
for ail. special prtvileKes to none."
Freedom for all specifically implies
freedom to do right, the right to life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
on lines of honest endeavor, strictly
barring wrong by act or speech. Spe
cial privilege specifically forbids the
granting to any person, class, organ!
zation or community any riglit or
privilege not granted to every other
person, class, organization or com
munlty, individually and collectively
their heirs and assiitns forever.
Industrial activities have a broader
meaning than simply the pleasure and
profit of the promoters and employes
Community interests are all-pervad
ing. Stagnation or -Impairment of
industrial activities affect the gen
eral public and in this day and age
no Industrial class or organization
has the right to run counter to pub
lie welfare. Individual yberty im
plies the right to change vocation
at will, if made for personal benoflt
or of necessity, provided it does not
Involve personal hatred and intent to
impair or destroy useful industry le
gitlmately conducted. It Implies pro
tection in all lines of honest endeavor
In act and speech, but forbids assault
on individual rights and public utlll
ties.
Each individual is an Integral part
of the commonwealth and has not the
right of his own free will 'or choice
to become a burden or a nuisance
Industry is the Inexorable law of cre
ation. By divine injunction, "In sweat"!
of thy face Shalt thou eat bread till
thou return unto the ground." Even
the honey bee makes an annual clear
ance and the wont-work drones are
stung t death.
If any have grievances, real or as
sumed, the remedy Is not in boycotting
and picketing. These engender only
hatred arid strife. But if of Vf flcient
gravity, real or presumed, lo require
action, the matter should be submit
ted to an impartial court of-equity
and when all the facts and conditions
are fully set forth and verdict . en
forced, the whole matter should be
come a closed incident. Only savaees
and barbarians hold to the right to
deal damnation around the land in
defense of real . or assumed criev
ances. W. 11. ODKLU
More Truth Than Poetry.
By -Jamra 'J. Montana.
meeting fo:. opi-: nun sio
Mr
KHMV XIMi.
When In elderly atork-hmk Inr gent
Declares ha would trade all he'a got
For the beautiful pea-e and content
That one finds In a lowly thatched
cot;
When he yearns for (he freedom from
trouble and rare
That a dear little home will tup.
ply ona,
I can't understand why ha don't go
somewhere. '
And buy on.
When a man with a barrel of wealth
Observes, with a r' lef-nrlrkm sob.
That he pines for tha full flush of
health
That one get with a laborer's Job;
When he dwells on the Jnyg and
pleasures that luik
In the worklngman'a neatly swept
hovel,
I am always surprised that h don't
go to work
With a shovel.
When' the city man speaks of ths
charm
That he knew In the fi-iyt that are
fled.
When he lived on the little old farm.
And the skies were so blut over
head; When he talKs of the brook, with Its
agile young trout
And tho lovely spring flowers that
blow there,
I can't comprehend why ha doesn't
sell out
And go there.
Ths poor, though they fain would be
ru-h.
Can always put up the (sens
For getting luxuries which
To come by are hard as tha a euro.
But the rich when they want to b
dreadfully poor
Don't need to be futllrly sighing,
And whenever they do ao, w !tml
, rather sure ,
They are lying.
F.asy.
It doesn't take any Hnurflnl to get
out of Mr. Wlif;n's cabinet.
Fiperlenre.
Who Is so well qualified as a demo
cratic candidate as Mr. Bryan, who
has been one, man and boy, for nearly
30 years? '
.'
Xot aarnrlalan-.
The paekers have stopped sendlnr
met to Kurope. They can get money
for It over here.
(Oopyrlsht. lWO. br The Hell Svnn leata )
Self-Interest.
Ily Grara I", Hall.
Jary war. which the government didn't
like during the war Because ii was
feared It might be offensive to the
British associates of the United States.
Health Officer C. L. Poley, M. D., of
Moro, is at the Imperial. Moro is
the county seat of Sherman county.
The people of the county are desir
ous of having the highway commis
sion locate and build The DalliB-Cali.
fornla highway from Shanlko to Moro
as soon as possible. The locaMon has
not been determined, however, so a
delegation from the county bureau in
tends Invading Portland the latter
part of March, when tne commission
Is In session, to urge action. One
aiure-pstion Is that the road be con
tinned on throueh Spanish Hollow to
the folnmbla hitrhway instead of
rrnsslnsr the Deschutes over into
Wasco ounty.
E. B. Tuttle of Imbler, accompanied
by Mrs. Tuttle. Is at the Benson on a
KhoDninBr expedition. Imbler Is In the
Grand Ronde valley in Union county
and hundreds of cars of grain and
apples are shipped out of there every
year. It Is not uncommon for a season
to produce 500 cars of grain, which
is more than 20 trains of cereal alone,
while the apple crop Is also good for
half a doxen trains. Hogs, hay and
lumber also are shipped in large
quantities. When the Union county
road programme is put through Im
bler will be connected b- a hard-surfaced
highway with all the other com
munities of the county.
Having experienced the California
climate and seen all the scenery In
that state worth mentioning, a party
of easterners at the Hotel Oregon
agree that Portland's climate is much
superior and that the scenery they
have viewed In Oregon Is consider-
ablv better than anything found in
California. The tourists are Mr. and
Mrs. W. B. Collinsrs and Mr. and Mrs.
J. N. Ott of Rockvllle, Ind.. and Mr.
and Mrs. L. W. Beckmqnt . of Ogden.
A. A. Frisbie, a traveling man from
San Francisco, and Ed Miller, porter
at the Hotel Oregon, met yesterday
for the first time since the San Fran
cisco quake. They were then working
together in San Francisco. They as
sembled at their place of employment
In the forenoon, an hour after Mr.
Miller's home burned to the ground,
and from that day until yesterday Mr.
Frisbie and Mr. Miller nevef'laid eyes
on each other.
Most people imagine that Mosier Is
only an apple country because of the
extensive orchards In that section, but
Mosier Is also a shipping point for
stock. George- A. Helms, a stockman
of that place, is registered at tha
Imperial.
I.ininf'n Vlrna Knnni nnd He
Yaa Asked lo Address Snlaa.
POHTLANK. March S (To (he
Editor.) Tle mass meeting at the
Swiss hall lust Sunday was called for
the purpose of arouai-nt ing our Swiss
people with the new foreiKn-lancuag
law. Mr. H. J. Langoe, pulilislior of
the Pacific Siandii.avln.i, thv Norwegian-Danish
weekly In this city,
was purposely Invited to speak on this
law because we knew lie held 'differ
ent views on It. We felt that this
far-reaching radical and partly un
just foreign-language law, hastily
drawn at the last special session of
the legislature, should he presented
to our people from different ankles.
Mr. Langoe did not throw a bomh Into
the audience, as The Oregonian writer
seemed to have gotten the Impres
sion. But his talks on "Americanism
and "The World Within a World"
were, certainly very Instructive and
well rerelved.
The meeting was conducted In the
American language; not one Swiss or
German word was spoken. It cer
tainty speaks well for the Americani
zation of our Swiss people when suro ,
a meeting can be fully understood In
the American language. The doors
were wide open and nobody was re
fused admission. No resolution was
prepared, In'.oduced or offered. .Tha.
meeting was orderly, American, In
structive and timely ,
It Is a fact that criticism was of
fered by- opponent! Pnt tho measure
and of those members or the lesrlsla
ture who seek the enactment of ex
treme rfstrlctlve laws. We feel tkat
either the leKlsture of the state of
uregon snouia ie anousnea or r pian
adopted -for a to-se:slon legislature
as proposed by Waller Pierce of La
Grande one session lo draw up legis
lative measures and one to enact the
laws. This will he a Vast Improve
ment and soon the people of tha
United States will have no more or
caslon to point the finger st us for
the enactment of "freak laws."
This meeting at the Swiss hall gave
food for thought. Our people were
urged to tako their duties as Ameri
can citizens more seriously than" In
the past. They were iira-ed to study
the measures to be voted upon more
carefully and to he fully Informed
about their value for the welfare of
the commonwealth. Let us hope
there will be more such meetings of
Information and discussion and that
other organizations do likewise,- This
will lead to better Anierh-nnizat Ion.
A. KKU.KR.
President United Societies' of Oregon.
IVOXE BUT FOOL DKRIDH ' LAW"
Those Who Kail Force That the
People Are the Government.
VANCOUVER. Wash., March 2.
(To the Editor ! I liked Tha Ore
gonian edftorlal on taxation. Give
us more of Its kind. We tall onr na
tional upkeep "revenue" and we refer
to the middleman's upkeep as "prnflrr"
Each Is a tax and In the final analy
sis "tho consume- pays it.
The middleman, whether he stands
between labor and production or he
twlxt product and consumer, is' ever
In position to collect his tax (profit .
It Is follv to attempt to tax him: he i
passes all taxes along to the consum- jne
er and adds to them a nice fat com- j "' h
When the world goes wrong there Is
Mama soma place
And we cavil al systems and klncs.
Each error we flout, yet we f.ill to
trace
To the source of the trouble, thesa
thipRs:
For under each art that forever In
trudes
On the rlshts and. tha welfare of
men,
An Impulse Is urging that pflen pre
cludes
j The spirit of fairness from them.
Self .Interest -that rovcts the best It
' can pain,
T!ejEardIe,s of others who strive.
Is tha force that la urging the clever
est bruin
'Tti the motive that seems best to
thrive;
There Is net ennuuh thouKht for the
- brother who fails,
Tho' compassion in pMms niay
, ,uitke, r
tut we irlve scanty heed lo his heart
broken wails,
Vol" e p-UII have our o n gunl to
make.
S.i, w ith man hs a unit anil king as a
. class.
There would seem to- be one sorry
fx ult: ,
And 'selfishness surely mut finally
pass. ,
Ere tlija era of (:reed feels a halt;
If there's one sis sir Motive that's
mostly to blame
For the world-woes so bitter to
bear,
It Is greedy self-interest: Its blister
' lug flame
Is bearing men's souls everywhere.
In Othe.- Days.
TfU-Hn enra Aaa.
Frm Tlie Orennlsn of Varrh 4. 11S,.
The 'odd Vfllows of Porflnnd ara
gelling ready to organize on employ
ment bureau for the benefit of un
employed members of their order.
Art-anpemejita have been completed
f.ir the sluing meeting of tha Parlfln
Northwast Association of the Amateur
Athletic Cntnn. which will take place
in Portland next, Saturday.
Ptrmor has It that Andrew Gilbert,
ex-potmster at Salem, will be ap
pointed superintendent of tha atuta
penitentiary.
A preliminary examination of ap
plicant for promotion to the rank of
rerond lieutenant In the reBular srmv
will take place al Vancouver barracks .
March 15. ,
Fifty Years Ago
From-Ths Orelonlsn if Msrrh 4. 1T
MeMlnnvllle. The a vers, are prlre of
land sold near here diirlna- the paat
yrnr was 'I2 50 per acre and smooth
prairie land In the vicinity of town
will easily bring I'D.
There Is soma talk among mer
chants of organizing a hoard of Irade
or chamber of commerce, such as ex
ist In large commercial cities in tho
east. '
Oovernor Wood Is announced to he
the next lecturer before the T. M. C. A.
A temperance meeting wsa heM at
tha courthouse Saturday, and an or
ganisation was formed with W . .
Page s president; William Masters,
treasurer, and Jacob Stilxet, secretary.
1 .aj
Where to Find 14 I'olnla.
El'OEXE, Or.. March I. (To tha
Editor.) 1. If spare will permit,
please publish President Wilson's 14
points In The Oregonian.
Also approximate nnnnoaries or
the three Oregon conaresslnnad dis
mission for collecting. X
In view of this som i deride our
government and rail at. our laws.
Such are, but fools. We are our gov
ernment and we make our laws. God
could do no more for us than did the
founders of our government and au
thors of onr Constitution.
Ignorance and Indolence are our
present-day curse. Intellle-ence would
lead to '-creased production and in
creased products Is all that may or
can remove existing burdens
UTILITY.
President oa Forelaa Soil.
BANKS. Or.. March 1. (To tha Edi
tor.) Did any president of the United
States other than AVHson put foot on
foreign soil during his term of office?
SUFSCRlBKIt.
f In November, 190ii. President Ttoose-
F. C. Oxman of Baker, who was I velt. while on an Inspection of tha
awarded a contract last month for Panama canal, visited the cities of
work on the Baker-Cornucopia high-I Panama and Colon, neither of which
way, is at the Imperial. is under the American flag. "
are a law In Oregon pro
hibiting people from taklnt" children
(3 to 8 years old) Into a public build
ing without reserving seats for them
so they must be held on tha lspT
A SUBSCRIBER.
.
1. Consult the ISIS World Almanac.
Tou will douhtles: find It In some1
other work containing the 14 point!
In your public librae-
2. The first district comprises west,
ern Oregon, exclusive of Multnomah
county; the second district comprises
eastern Oregon; the third, Multnomah
county.
S. No.
Pronaaelalloa of ame.
MILTON'. Or., Match 1. To the
Editor, Please Inform me how Mr.
Clllext. sraker of the house, pro
nounces bla name? 1', K A D l U.
Soft sound of
ond tyllahla.
accent on sac-